DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AND RARE INDIAN PLANTS. 109 
Prats 128. А. Subspecies Hemsleyi, Tachienlu region. В, Delphinium pachycentrum, Hemsl. subspecies fsangensis 
Tibet. 1, anterior, 2, lateral, 3, posterior sepals, (5) inner, (5*) outer surface; 4, petaloid staminodes; 6, nectariferou 
staminodes; 6, gynecium, (a) of subspecies Hemsleyi, (8) of subspecies tsangensis, var. dasycarpais, (b,* b**) of var. 
leiocarpa; 7, upper extremity of style; 8, stamens. 
Aconitum FEROX, Wall. 
(А. ferox, Wall. іп Seringe Mus. Helv. І, 160; DC. Prodr. I, 160; A. virosum, 
Don; “А. ferox et A. atrox, Wall. in Ш”: Don, Prodr.; А. palmatum, Don, Prodr.; A. 
lethale, Griff. Notul.) 
Stem entirely simple or branched upwards, erect; leaves reniform, orbicular, moro 
rarely ovate, usually cordate, 5—7-lobed or partite, sometimes trisect ; inflorescence race- 
mose ог racemose-paniculate ; helmet more or less vaulted, more rarely navicular ; 
nectaries included, claw longer than spur, spur conical with terminal globose recurved 
tip, more rarely saceate, elub-shaped, or subglobose; labellum bilobed or marginate, very 
short or oblong; follicles subcylindric; seeds obpyramidal, epidermis folded into transverse 
sinuous scariose wrinkles of various width. 
Flowers from July to September. 
Distribution: Temperate Himalaya: Kashmir; Garhwal to Sikkim; Chumbi and 
Phari. 
Subspecies I. moscuatum, P Brühl; stems simple; leaves reniform ; flowers musky ; sepals 
purplish-brown ; helmet navicular ; nectaries slightly recurved at the apex; spur broadly aud 
shortly saccate, very obtuse; labellum about as long as the spur, obovoate, nearly entire ; follicles about 
2 cm. long; seeds broadly obpyramidate, with broad scariose wrinkles.— Kashmir: on rocks, Sonsa 
nallah, Liddar valley, 13—14,000^ (Duthie !) ; Musjid valley, 12—13,000° (Duthie 7). 
Flowers in July. 
Description of subspecies I—Rhizome fusiform or irregularly cylindric. Stem erect, simple, straight, 
terete, 50—90 ош. high, about 4—9 mm. thick near the base, glabrescent below, more and more densely 
hairy upwards, subtomentose with yellowish hairs along the floral axis. Leaves all or most of them 
basal, very long-petioled, palminerved with the nerves little prominent on the lower and much paler 
surface, reniform in outline, breadth 3—% of length, palmately tripartite to 1 or 4, ciliate, puberulous 
above, subglabrous below except nerves ; lateral segments rounded-subtrapezoidal, unequally 3—4-lobed, 
middle segment three-lobed upwards; lobes broadly cuneate, coarsely dentate-crenate, crenatures subobtuse, 
apiculate ; petioles sheathing at the base, rounded upwards, striate, usually 20—30 em. long, somewhat 
hairy ; infrafloral cauline leaves, where present, similar to the basal ones. Inflorescence strictly racemose, 
usually lax, many-flowered ; floral leaves short-petioled below, sessile upwards; the lowest trisect or 
deeply tripartite, segments entire or cleft, upper ones bract-like, lanceolate, diminishing in size upwards ; 
pedicels erect, the lowest much longer than the upper ones, about as long as the flowers, densely 
villose-pubescent ; bracteoles inserted above the middle, linear-lanceolate, 8—12 mm. long. Flowers 
musky. Sepals rather spreading, purplish-brown, outside rather densely covered with coarse yellowish 
hairs; helmet navicular, attenuated downwards, scarcely produced at the apex, 13—16 mm. high, 
lower part erect; lateral sepals broadly obovate, about 12 mm. long, 8—9 mm. broad; anterior ones 
unsymmetrically elliptic, obtuse, 9—10 mm. long, 5—6 mm. broad. Nectaries erect, somewhat 
recurved upwards, glabrous; claw linear, dilated upwards, 8—0 mm. long ; spur broadly and shortly 
conical, very obtuse, 4—5 mm. long; labellum spreading, about as long as the spur, obovate, 
scarcely emarginate. Stamens not very numerous, laterally enclosed; filaments 5—6 mm. long, 
membranously dilated from the middle downwards, subfiliform upwards, the dilated part attenuate ; 
anthers subglobose, 0:8 mm. long, dark-coloured. Pistils 3, erect, 5—6 mm. long; ovaries oblong, densely 
hairy; style shorter than the ovary. Follicles subparallel, ovoid at the base, subcylindric upwards, 
